A GREAT CATHEDRAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1923, Page 3

A GREAT CATHEDRAL.

ERECTION IN AMERICA. SHRINE FOR AIM. CREEDS. ESTIMATED COST £2,001),000. Plans for the immediate completion (if a great American national cathedhal, larger than Westminster Abbey and rivalling the celebrated structures of Europe, were announced at the convention of the Episcopal Diote-e of Washington. Costing £2.000,000 and with its central tower rising; above the Washington Monument, the great edifice is planned to take in the hearts oi Americans the place which the old abbey occupies among the British nation; probably to become the final resting place of America’s celebrated dead and a. “witness for Christ in the capital <>l the nation.” The plans contemplate more than a diocesan cathedral : they embrace a national shrine. The right Rev Alfred T. Harding. Bishop of Washington, pointed out that at the last general convention oi the Episcopal Church bolh houses unanimously adopted a resolution which “commends the erection without delay at: the capital of the nation of a great cathedral to witness to the spiritual ideals of America.’ “This,” said Bishop Harding, "is the" basis of the appeal which we are making to the churchmen and churchwomen of our land. We are convinced that this witness for Christ in the capital of the nation will he a potent agency in lifting the minds of men to spiritual realities, and thus counteract the trend so evident in our time towards materialism.”